#Libya: US Bombed Wreckage of F-15 Fighter Jet That Went Down

See what happens when the US goes in...

Daily Mail (3/22/2011):

US BOMBED U.S. rescue chopper shoots six Libyan villagers as they welcome pilots of downed Air Force jet

Six Libyan villagers are recovering in hospital after being shot by American soldiers coming in to rescue the U.S. pilots whose plane crash-landed in a field.

The helicopter strafed the ground as it landed in a field outside Benghazi beside the downed U.S. Air Force F-15E Eagle which ran into trouble during bombing raid last night.

And a handful of locals who had come to greet the pilots were hit - among them a young boy who may have to have a leg amputated because of injuries caused by a bullet wound.

Reuters Africa (3/23/2011):

WRECKAGE OVERNIGHT OF F-15 FIGHTER JET THAT WENT DOWN IN LIBYA-OFFICIAL

And the US Defense Secretary admits he doesn't really know what the hell they are doing....

Bloomberg (3/22/2011):

“This command-and-control business is complicated, and we haven’t done something like this kind of on-the-fly before,” U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters in Moscow today. “It’s not surprising to me that it would take a few days to get it all sorted out.”

Hmmmm. Haven't your department been doing this kind of thing for 10 years now, Mr. Gates? It sure looks like that to me in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, "-stans" in Central Asia, now Libya.

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